The Quarterly Review, Volume 187William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1898 |
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Pagina 89
... officer , and escaped to the seaside . He then contrived to join Prince Charles , who was in the Downs with some ships which had deserted the Earl of Warwick . Parliament , after the siege of Lichfield , had confiscated the estates of ...
... officer , and escaped to the seaside . He then contrived to join Prince Charles , who was in the Downs with some ships which had deserted the Earl of Warwick . Parliament , after the siege of Lichfield , had confiscated the estates of ...
Pagina 128
... officer , not yet indeed fully tested , most likely to cope with the difficulties of any emergency . In the display of this , in its many self - revelations , -in concentration of purpose , untiring energy , fearlessness of ...
... officer , not yet indeed fully tested , most likely to cope with the difficulties of any emergency . In the display of this , in its many self - revelations , -in concentration of purpose , untiring energy , fearlessness of ...
Pagina 130
... officer , who afterwards served with him , and is fre- quently mentioned in his correspondence . On this occasion he wrote with rapture of Miss Andrews ' beauty and accomplish- ments , and applied to his uncle William Suckling for an ...
... officer , who afterwards served with him , and is fre- quently mentioned in his correspondence . On this occasion he wrote with rapture of Miss Andrews ' beauty and accomplish- ments , and applied to his uncle William Suckling for an ...
Pagina 140
... officer , and that his nation , while liable like others to bursts of unreasoning savagery , in its normal moods delights to see justice clothed in orderly forms , unstained by precipitation or suspicion of perversion , advancing to its ...
... officer , and that his nation , while liable like others to bursts of unreasoning savagery , in its normal moods delights to see justice clothed in orderly forms , unstained by precipitation or suspicion of perversion , advancing to its ...
Pagina 141
... officer abroad is as highly necessary as military courage ; ' and in this connexion Captain Mahan takes occasion to expound what seems to us to be unimpeachable doctrine : - It is possible to recognize the sound policy , the moral ...
... officer abroad is as highly necessary as military courage ; ' and in this connexion Captain Mahan takes occasion to expound what seems to us to be unimpeachable doctrine : - It is possible to recognize the sound policy , the moral ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 228 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Pagina 143 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Pagina 276 - October last, at a special meeting of the ' Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control/ a presentation was made to Mr.
Pagina 579 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Pagina 13 - MUSIC is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite; we look for moments, across the cloudy elements, into the eternal Sea of Light, when song leads and inspires us. Serious nations, all nations that can still listen to the mandate of Nature, have prized song and music as the highest; as a vehicle for worship, for prophecy, and for whatsoever in them was divine.
Pagina 430 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Pagina 233 - I am able, with yet happier and calmer heart than ever heretofore, to enforce its simplest assurance of Faith, that the knowledge of what is beautiful leads on, and is the first step, to the knowledge of the things which are lovely and of good report ; and that the laws, the life, and the joy of beauty in the material world of God, are as eternal and sacred parts of His creation as, in the world of spirits, virtue ; and in the world of angels, praise.
Pagina 248 - ... originality, and less even of that extreme simplicity and lowliness of tone which wavered so prettily, in the Lyrical Ballads, between silliness and pathos. We have imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton here; engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers...
Pagina 84 - But supposing, which is the real case with regard to man, that this creature is not antecedently convinced of a supreme intelligence, benevolent, and powerful, but is left to gather such a belief from the appearances of things; this entirely alters the case, nor will he ever find any reason for such a conclusion. He may be fully convinced of the narrow limits of his understanding ; but this will not help him in forming an inference concerning the goodness of superior powers, since he must form that...